A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 184
pavement;and outside the arcadea surrounding aisle about eighteen feet wide, divided into bays alter-nately square and triangular, by transverse arches, of which two springfrom each pier of the arcade to the outside wall, the square baysbeing covered by groined vaults. The exterior wall of the… … Fig. 99. Brescia. Duonio Vecchio. 158 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY from the walls of the drum without a cornice. On the exterior thesame plainness prevails, so far as the aisle wall is concerned. Butthe central wall, which rises nearly to the height of the dome, andis crowned by a low-pitched conical…
Architecture
Internet Archive · Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
